Spring retainer for gear pump bearing plate
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsEdward W. Goy, Timothy J. Franckowiak
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Abstract
A gear pump includes a pair of gears having meshed teeth. One of the gears is configured for connection to a source of drive. The gears are received within a housing. The housing has an inlet port configured for connection to a source of fluid and an outlet port. Each of the gears have a shaft rotating within the housing on a bearing on each axial side of each gear. At least one of the bearings associated with each of the pair of gears has a plurality of springs received in recesses to bias the said at least one bearing against an end face of a respective one of the pair of gears. A retention plate holds each of the plurality springs. A method of assembly is also disclosed.
Claims20
A method of assembly comprising the steps of:
- mounting a plurality of coil springs to a spring retention plate, and moving the spring retention plate with the plurality of coil springs into a plurality of recesses in an associated component.
A method of assembly of a gear pump comprising the steps of:
- mounting a plurality of coil springs to a spring retention plate, and moving the spring retention plate with the plurality of coil springs into a plurality of recesses in an associated one of a pair of bearings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.